Re: Recommendations for a new MFD device driver?

From: Lee Jones
Date: Tue Feb 10 2015 - 02:20:49 EST


On Fri, 06 Feb 2015, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We are adding support for a new pretty typical MFD device, the MediaTek
> MT6397. Initial patches are already posted. It's a PMIC which among other
> things has regulators and a RTC. The same RTC is reused on another PMIC,
> but with another register offset and another interrupt.
>
> Now the question is where shall we put the register/irq resource
> information?
>
> 1) Put it into the RTC device driver.
> 2) Put it into the .resource field of struct mfd_cell
> 3) Put it into the device tree using standard reg, interrupt properties and
> a) Let the RTC driver interpret these
> b) Let the MFD driver create resources in the .resource field of struct
> mfd_cell
> c) Let the MFD core create the resources

I have no problem with 2, if that's the route you'd like to take.

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